From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:03:19 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] About cygwin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100822130319.2cb6e9e3@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:27:25 +1000 Mitch Davis wrote: > Disclaimer: I may be wrong as I'm not part of buildroot team, just > trying to help. You're correct: we don't support Cygwin. I'm not personally interested by adding Cygwin support to Buildroot, and I think that trying to do embedded Linux development inside Cygwin doesn't make sense, you'd better use Linux on your development workstation. Now, if someone steps in and wants to improve Buildroot to support Cygwin, why not, but we'll have to see how invasive the changes are. I don't think we want to merge invasive Cygwin-specific changes if no-one is going to maintain them on the long term. As none of the current main Buildroot contributors use Windows and Cygwin, Cygwin support is probably going to be broken quite often by mistake due to improvements we make to Buildroot. Of course, that's my own personal point of view, not the one of the Buildroot project as a whole. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com